Lamp-burner.



A. R. BOYNTON.

LAMP BURNER. APrLIoA'rIoN 111.1111 00T. 1, 1910.

1,000,370, Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

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AIVIOS R. BOYNTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LAMP-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

Application led Detober 1, 1910. Serial No. 584,802.

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, AMos R. BoYN'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp Burners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the more perfect combustion of the hydrocarbons making up the light-giving ame, the complete incandescence and intensifying of said flame, and the elimination of smoke in the chimney, where one is used, and it consists in the construction, combinations and details hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings-Figure 1, is a transverse section parallel with and centrally of the flame slot, through a burner embodying my invention; Fig. 2, an elevation, partly broken away, of said burner; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the air deflector surrounding thev wick tube; and Fig. L1, a plan view of the unitary blank out of which the deflector is constructed.

Referring now to said drawing; reference numeral 10, indicates the base of the burner, having screw-threads 11, for attachment to the lamp; 12, is the dome with flame slot 13, and which may be hinged to said base in the customary manner, and 14, is the air deflector which latter surrounds the wick tube 15, through which feeder 16, drives the Wick.

The flame from the ordinary flat wick used in kerosene lamps is, as a rule, highest in the middle, owing to more abundant supply of oxygen, and dwindles down to a point at the edges. The wick, therefore, does not burn evenly, and the light given out is not commensurate with the area burned. My invention is designed to give a more equable supply of oxygen to the flame, and, incidentally, to cheapen and permanentize the construction of the deflector. To this end I construct the deector of a single integral blank of suitable sheet metal, having at one end locking ears 17, and at the other an intermeshing tongue 18, with base loops 19, on one side and burner loops 20, on the other, which latter come at opposite ends of the wick tube inclosed by the deflector, while the former corresponds to its sides. This blank is folded along the lines 21, 22, 23, 24;, and 25, and also on the lines 26, 27, 28, and 29, to form the completed structure shown in Fig. 3, with openings 30, extending down below the top of the wick tube to admit an abundant supply of air from the foraminous base to the corners of said tube and yield oxygen to the flame at these points. The dome is formed with a circumferential groove 31, which can be sprung by lateral pinching .ofl the dome to receive the loops 20, and` has bulges, 32, coincident with the ends of the burner slot, to locate and position said ears. The base loops, and the spaces inclosed thereby, limit the supply of air to the center of the flame cordinately with the relatively large supply afforded by the unobstructed end walls and their out away portions, the encircling loops of the latter serving to direct the air to the flame space, and thereby an even llame, equable consumption and more perfect incandescence is secured.

I do not confine myself to the precise details of construction herein described, but

What I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States is 1. The combination with the wick tube and dome, of the deflector having base loops to determine the supply of air to the body of the ame, and unobstructed end walls with openings at the top extending below the upper end of the wick tube.

2. A deector for lamp burners, consisting of a single piece of sheet metal having at one of its ends a pair of ears and at its other end an intermeshing tongue to fit between said ears, the said piece being bent to form substantially a rectangular figure having its side walls inwardly and upwardly inclined and provided at its end walls with openings and outwardly extended loops and at its side walls with horizontally disposed base loops.

AMOS R. BOYNTON. Witnesses:

CHAs. C. TILLMAN, J. E. HANSEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

